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Top 10 Contingencies Every Hawai‘i Organization Should Be Ready For
In the wake of yesterday’s powerful earthquake off Kamchatka and the resulting tsunami warnings for Alaska and Hawai‘i, organizations across the islands were reminded just how quickly a crisis can unfold.

VFS Team
Jul 302 min read


Keeping Up with Ever-Evolving Cybersecurity
Using WEF's Global Cybersecurity Outlook report as a foresight resource.

VFS Team
Feb 31 min read


Practical Foresight: Updating Your Contingencies
Update your contingency scenarios with a little foresight.

VFS Team
Apr 5, 20242 min read


Practical Foresight: Discuss the Trends
Fortunately, it doesn’t take very long to have a good discussion about the future. In fact, ninety minutes will do just fine.

VFS Team
Mar 22, 20242 min read


Practical Foresight: Picture Your Environment
Build your team's shared mental model of your operating environment.

VFS Team
Mar 8, 20242 min read


Practical Foresight: 10 Minutes Each Week
Practical Foresight activity #1: 10 minutes each week to discuss signals of change.

VFS Team
Feb 23, 20242 min read


Preparing for a Turbulent 2024
Anticipating disruptions and a turbulent year ahead.

VFS Team
Feb 5, 20242 min read


Choosing Your AI Path
It might surprise some people to learn that formal futures studies has a lot of history in it. When it comes to the topic of economic...

VFS Team
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Praise for 4 Steps to the Future
“4 Steps to the Future” by Dr. Richard Lum is a thought-provoking and insightful guide..."

Lindsay
Sep 29, 20231 min read


Where are You Squeezing to Predict, Where are You Relaxing to See Possibilities?
Sometimes we are trying to predict a specific future thing, and other times we are trying to see more of what is possible.

Richard Lum
May 12, 20232 min read


Knowing What Kind of Foresight You Need
Now that so many more of us are becoming familiar with foresight, we have an opportunity to be more discerning about what we need.

Richard Lum
Jul 15, 20222 min read


Disinformation is Not a Future Problem
In ten years’ time, “disinformation” is not going to be the headline. Something else will. Something else will dominate people’s...

Richard Lum
Jun 20, 20222 min read


The 3 Easiest Ways to Link Foresight to Strategy
It is easy to apply foresight to existing strategy conversations. Here we quickly look at three simple ways to link the two.

Richard Lum
Apr 27, 20223 min read


Sensing the Future of Warfare
The Sensing Model is a valuable tool for looking at the future of conflict, particularly in a year of so many successive disruptions.

Richard Lum
Sep 27, 20205 min read


Anticipating JARVIS
This is just one more scan hit supporting a couple of our previously discussed emerging issues.

Richard Lum
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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